Wedding bells replace by tank shells

Soldier gets married in middle of tank training
Army Times
By Kevin Lilley
Staff report
May. 11, 2014

When it appeared a first sergeant and his fiancée would have to call off their wedding because of a change to his unit’s training schedule, love found a way.

Well, love and Delta Company. And some tanks.

First Sgt. Riley Flaherty met the future Kelly Flaherty while they were high schoolers in central Ohio. He joined the Army, she stayed near home and became a firefighter.

They reconnected about two decades later — first came a long-distance romance, then both of them moved to Fort Hood, Texas, in October.

They decided a small wedding would be best, with a deployment looming. They settled on an April 27 ceremony — her family had planned a visit that weekend — outside the 1st Cavalry Division Museum.

Two weeks before the wedding, the couple learned the schedule for gunnery exercises had shifted, overlapping with their big day.

Riley Flaherty would be with his unit well into May. Wedded bliss would have to wait.
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